Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Compare cell phone and book prices in India

Now we have two good sites in India to find best deal for cell phones and books.  For cell phones you can use mysmartprice, this site also provides comparison of book prices. There is also one more site(indiabookstore.net) dedicated for comparing book prices which will by default give you the best price but does not really allow you to compare book prices of different stores like in mobile phones.  But one thing I don’t really like is none of the above mentioned stores mentions about e-book and their prices. In this era of e-book readers that’s a major gap that must be filled by these site owners.

Future Mobile Phone

I may be thinking wild about the mobile phone future and using lot of my imagination here. Sometime in future there are things you can expect from a mobile phone

- Its not going to be rectangular in shape with keypad/touch screen. Its just going to be a small device with projector using which you can use any surface to project things from your phone and do your regular tasks like selecting a number and making call or sending out a message. The projecting you can very well use your palm. The technology is all ready exists called sixth sense(http://www.google.com/url?url=http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html&rct=j&sa=X&ei=-H70TPXoE4j0sgaDu4nSBA&ved=0CD8QuAIwAw&q=sixth+sense&usg=AFQjCNEKBhwN3inYm3d3y9Wf2tDQVIQZKA).

- Your mobile will be replacing your wallet as it will be used as your plastic money. It will literally becomes your identity. Of course will be connected to seamlessly to internet all the time(3G/4G/may be 5G :) or free Wi-Fi).

- For avoiding theft and misuse it will recognize your finger prints and will shutdown if someone else is trying to use it.

- It’s going to replace all your paper books and newspapers as it will be used as your e-book reader. No need to carry bulky kindle or iPad with you all the time.

- It will become your personal TV. As mentioned you can use the projector to project the TV from web on any surface.

- It may not be having any internal storage as everything you want to store(photos, books, movies, HD vedios taken using the device etc.) will be placed in a cloud.

- With all the above mentioned features the size of the device should not be more than a ping-pong ball(Yes it should be round in shape).

 

At least these are the things I imagine add if you have any other ideas.

Monday, November 29, 2010

Acer tablet are going to be market leader in 2 years

If acer CEO’s words to be believed in the coming years Acer tablet will be marketing leader. Rather than betting on a single form-factor and OS, the company has developed a trio of tablets in two sizes, running on two platforms. In February, Acer will ship a Windows-based device with a 10.1-inch-display. And in April, it will ship two Android-based tablets, one with a 7-inch display and another with a 10.1-inch display (native 1280×800 screen resolution), a dual-core 1GHz processor, a front-facing camera for video calling, a 5 megapixel rear-facing camera, and HDMI output.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Facebook Email

It sounds real fun to me. There are lot of posts in blogs and news sites that facebook at the verge of launching a email service. The first thought comes to me is what are they going to offere new, which is not available in the existing services like gmail etc. I use gmail and find everything I need in that screen from making a phone call using google voice to sending a mail. Just one more thing that makes me wonder is there are lot of arguments in blogs that the email obsolete and the future of communication is using the social media only. But now the same blogs and wait on facebook to release a email service. Lets see what will be the out come. Hope something revolutionary comes out from facebook.